by KateMarsh (Editor), NicolaFrith (Editor)
This collection of essays investigates the fundamental role that the loss of colonial territories at the end of the Ancient Regime and post-World War II has played in shaping French memories and colonial discourses. In identifying loss and nostalgia as key tropes in cultural representations, these essays call for a re-evaluation of French colonialism as a discourse informed not just by narratives of conquest, but equally by its histories of defeat.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 202
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 01 Mar 2011
ISBN 10: 0739148834
ISBN 13: 9780739148839